Chapter 1: The Storyteller
On the ninth day of April, it rained heavily. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Standing on the hillside behind the village and looking up, I saw a trace of purple electricity looming in the clouds.
"It's thundering, it's going to rain, go home and collect your clothes!" In a fairly smooth depression in the mountains, a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy wrapped his coarse cloth clothes tightly and hurried out with a small flock of sheep.
"Ishikawa, Brother Chuan, every time it thunders and rains, you shout like this, you can't change a fresh trick!"
Behind him, there were several young men and women of about the same age, among whom there was a rather stout young man who was wearing a silk shirt that was different from the others, and shouted in dissatisfaction, but as soon as his voice came out, it was blown apart by the strong wind, and he could not hear it clearly.
Ishikawa didn't answer: "Zhang Fugui, you don't understand!"
"Don't call me Zhang Fugui, my father has already changed my name, my name is Zhang Wenheng now!" The sturdy young man ran a few steps and caught up with Ishikawa in front, first grinning and scaring the earth dog that came to his lap, and then changed to a flattering smile and said: "Brother Chuan, don't go home for a while, how about going directly to my house to shelter from the rain, I secretly hid a plate of pig's head meat before I came out at noon, and the half pot of soju that my father drank last night was all reserved for you." ”
"I haven't heard enough of the story of the monkey and the pig demon you told today, I just heard that it is going to rain on Xing's head, you go to my house and tell me about it, or you tell me first, did Brother Bajie finally marry Chang'e and Gao Yulan as his daughter-in-law, and Sun Dasheng, did he have anything with Miss Zixia. ”
Someone in the back shouted, "Ishikawa, we have to listen too." ”
Zhang Fugui said dissatisfiedly: "What are you anxious about, when Brother Ishikawa finishes telling me, I will tell you about it." ”
Hearing the pig's head meat and soju, Ishikawa, who had not known the taste of wine and meat for more than half a month, was obviously a little moved, but he looked up at the black clouds that were getting lower and lower, and the wind was getting stronger and stronger, and he swallowed his saliva and said helplessly: "Fugui'er, you will be fifteen soon, tell your father, marry a daughter-in-law, don't hold it all the time, what to do if you are sick, my mother only cares about men and women when she listens to the story of a monk learning scriptures...... Remember to keep the wine and meat for my brother, I will go home first and get the sheep in the pen, and then clean up the house, and when the rain is lighter, I will come to you......"
As he spoke, Ishikawa looked up at the sky and sighed faintly: "The sky has changed greatly, the wind and clouds are protruding, this is a peerless demon to be born! ”
Ishikawa was purely casual nonsense, but he didn't expect Zhang Fugui to take it seriously, he looked around a few times with a trembling rope, and said in a trembling voice: "Brother, who is this, the Dragon King of the East China Sea?
Hearing the words Ben Bo Er Ba coming out of Zhang Fugui's mouth, Ishikawa inexplicably felt a burst of joy, of course he didn't show his smile, but frowned and made a solemn look and said: "It's hard to say, it's really possible that Ben Bo Er Ba Demon King, his old man likes to drink with the tip of the heart of a virgin." ”
"I'm a mother, big brother, don't scare me. At this moment, not only Zhang Fugui, but even the children who followed behind were all pale and speechless.
After crossing a small slope to the head of the village, the raindrops of beans had fallen from the sky, and a group of children scattered in a hurry, running towards their homes, apparently frightened by Ishikawa, only hating their parents for giving birth to two legs.
"Alas, the children of this world are simple, a mythical story of Journey to the West can surprise them like this, am I a little too bad?" Anyway, his body was already wet with more and more rain, and Ishikawa was not in a hurry in the last few tens of meters, and drove the sheep to the sheepfold built of stones, closed the door and returned to the house where he lived.
Tick, tick......
The dilapidated stone house was leaking everywhere, and Ishikawa looked at the bed, which was already wet, rolled up the bedding and threw it to the watertight half, and turned to the stove and lit a fire.
This is not good in the mountains, as soon as it rains, the temperature drops badly, and now he is drenched, and if he does not hurry up to raise a fire to roast, he will get sick.
As the flames grew louder, he took off his wet clothes and set them aside, wrapped himself in a sheepskin blanket and sat down beside him to roast the fire.
Under the warm orange-red flames, a faint smile appeared on Ishikawa's still slightly immature face, and his thoughts gradually drifted, and after a while, he didn't know where he had gone.
This is the fourteenth year that Ishikawa has been in this world, and after the initial disbelief and fear and despair, he reluctantly accepts his transformation from a college student to a poor hunter's child, and after a long time, when he has just adapted to calling a man he doesn't know his father, and begins to really establish a blood relationship, the man accidentally encountered a tiger protecting his cubs while hunting in the mountains, and although he killed the tiger after a desperate fight, he also died of his injuries.
Since then, Ishikawa can only start to live alone, the first time is miserable, for a child who is just five or six years old, and has been living a life of food and clothes to stretch his hands, it seems that it is only a matter of time before he is starved to death.
Fortunately, most of the villagers in Banshan Village are simple and kind, and they can't bear to watch a child who died of his mother just after birth and lost his father at a young age starve to death, so this family gave a little bit and that family gave a little bit to let Ishikawa survive the most difficult pass.
As long as he can live, no one wants to die, although he has no relatives here, and there are no entertainment activities such as computers and televisions that can be enjoyed in his previous life, but Ishikawa still began to work hard to support himself, from starting to work for others for a short time, to secretly learning to hunt with other hunters, and finally one day, he successfully hunted a sika deer after staring at it for three days and three nights, and exchanged a sum of money to buy sheep from Zhang Yuanwai, a wealthy family in the village, and finally got rid of the life of hunger and a full meal.
The next thing is to practice martial arts, literacy, and herding sheep, although the life is hard, but it can be regarded as free.
Soon after coming here, Ishikawa was surprised to find that this was a world very different from the earth before him, although he had never been out of the village of three acres and three acres, even the town hundreds of miles away had never been to it, but just from the hunters in the village, he could find that they all had more skills than any master he had seen on the earth.
Listening to the most well-informed in the village, the old man Wang told that the old man Wang, who had been out for decades, told that the means of these people were nothing at all, and compared with the real masters, it was simply the difference between heaven and earth, and the old man Wang had described to Ishikawa more than once with relish the fight scene between the two masters he was lucky enough to see, which also made Ishikawa's eyes light up and envy.
"First of all, this is a world where you can practice, and secondly, this is a world where you can practice to the extreme, and if possible, I can ...... too," Ishikawa said to himself.
But thinking about it, how to live his life or how to live, not to mention anything else, he now does not dare to explore the depths of the nearby mountains except for the surroundings of the mid-mountain village, let alone go through the mountains to the town hundreds of miles away to ask for opportunities, not to mention that according to the old man Wang, there are no monks who can teach people to practice in the towns outside the mountains, and the nearest one seems to be in the Kunwu Mountain thousands of miles away.
Therefore, after boiling blood for a while, Ishikawa returned to his original step-by-step life, the only thing that has changed is that he has practiced martial arts more diligently than before, and at the same time, he can't bear the loneliness and begins to comment on books with a group of children of the same age in the village, and the content is selected from the Romance of the Gods, Water Margin, and Journey to the West.
What makes Ishikawa quite ridiculous is that those children are fascinated by his story, scratching their ears and cheeks if they don't listen to it for a day, and their hearts are itching, especially the wealth of Zhang Yuanwai's family, every time they will steal some wine and meat from their own house to give him to enjoy.
Ishikawa wondered if he would directly enter the online literature stage of the fire after finishing the Journey to the West, wouldn't he be able to eat the wine and meat stolen by Zhang Fugui every day?
"Hey, hey, hey......" He couldn't help but laugh out loud at the thought of his happiness.
Just as he was laughing secretly, there were suddenly several terrible dog barks outside the house.
Ishikawa woke up in shock, he didn't even bother to put on his clothes, reached out and grabbed the boning knife on the stove and ran out of the door.
The wind and rain outside are getting heavier and stronger.